Author: Thomas Alfred Spalding
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Thomas Alfred Spalding
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1773563424
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Author: Marion Gibson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472500318
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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This volume in the long-running and acclaimed Shakespeare Dictionary series is a detailed, critical reference work examining all aspects of magic, good and evil, across Shakespeare's works. Topics covered include the representation of fairies, witches, ghosts, devils and spirits.

Author: Thomas Alfred Spalding
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465595961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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Author: Kathleen R. Sands
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031305777X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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In October of 1563, 18-year old Anne Mylner was herding cows near her home when she was suddenly enveloped by a white cloud that precipitated a months-long illness characterized by sleeplessness, loss of appetite, convulsions, and bodily swelling. Mylner's was the first of several cases during the reign of Elizabeth I of England that were interpreted as demon possession, a highly emotional experience in which an afflicted person displays behavior indicating a state of religious distress. To most Elizabethans, belief in Satan was as natural as belief in God, and Satan's affliction of mankind was clearly demonstrated in the physical and spiritual distress displayed by virtually every person at some point in his or her life. This book recounts 11 cases of Elizabethan demon possession, documenting the details of each case and providing the cultural context to explain why the diagnosis made sense at the time. Victims included children and adults, servants and masters, Catholics and Protestants, frauds and the genuinely ill. Edmund Kingesfielde's wife, possessed by a demon who caused her to hate her children and to contemplate suicide, was cured when her husband changed his irreverent tavern sign (depicting a devil) for a more seemly design. Alexander Nyndge, possessed by a Catholic demon that spoke with an Irish accent, was cured by his own brother through physical bondage and violence. Agnes Brigges and Rachel Pindar, whose afflictions included vomiting pins, feathers, and other trash, were revealed as frauds and forced to confess publicly, their parents being imprisoned for complicity in the fraud. All these cases attest to a powerful need to ascribe some moral significance to human suffering. Allowing the sufferer to externalize and ultimately evict the demon as the cause of his or her affliction bestowed some measure of hope—no mean feat in a world with such widespread human distress.

Author: Various
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 152876479X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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An eclectic volume on the history of the supernatural in Britain and Ireland. Illustrating detailed aspects of mysticism and sorcery, this volume is a carefully curated collection of articles containing information on demons, witches, and spirits in the history of the British Isles and Ireland. The contents of this volume feature: - Elizabethan Demonology: Thomas Alfred Spalding - Scottish Demonology and Witchcraft - The Spirit World of Wales - Irish Witchcraft and Demonology: St. John D. Seymour

Author: Thomas Alfred Spalding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Demonology
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Lauren Kassell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191514225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. He stood apart from the medical elite because he was not formally educated and because he represented, and boldly asserted, medical ideas that were antithetical to those held by most learned physicians. He survived the plague, was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions, distilled strong waters made from beer, herbs, and sometimes chemical ingredients, pursued the philosopher's stone in experiments and ancient texts, and when he was fortunate spoke with angels. He wrote compulsively, documenting his life and protesting his expertise in thousands of pages of notes and treatises. This highly readable book provides the first full account of Forman's papers, makes sense of his notorious reputation, and vividly recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.

Author: Leonard R. N. Ashley
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616083336
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Previous ed.: New York: Barricade Books, c1996.

Author: Thiselton T.F Dyer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752323752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Reproduction of the original: Folk-Lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton T.F Dyer